Chapter IX Raising Military Salaries
"Hey, what are you carrying?" A sturdy young man next to him looked at the spear wrapped around Hu Fei's back, his face full of curiosity.
"Shotgun." Hu Fei smiled at the sturdy young man beside him. He carried a gun on the road without attracting much attention from the people around him, but the young man of the same age next to him was a self-acquaintance, and he seemed to be very interested in Hu Fei who appeared halfway, especially when he saw him carrying something different.
"Shotguns? Are you a hunter? After receiving an affirmative reply, the boy cheered, "Great! If you meet a beast, you can fight one, and we will have meat to eat at noon today! ”
Beast? With so many people on the road, how could a beast with no eyes approach? Although Hu Fei is not a professional hunter, he has indeed hunted rabbits in the wild in the past, and the more sparsely populated and complex the terrain is, the more wild things are infested. On a crowded road like this, not to mention beasts, there will not even be a single mouse.
"My name is Yang Xi, and my nickname is Xizi. What's your name? ”
"My name is Hu Fei."
After the two young people exchanged names, they quickly became acquainted, and Hu Fei knew that Yang Xi came out of Kuanchengzi with his father and mother, and was going to go to Guannai to beg for a living.
After the "918 Incident", the devils began to raise troops in the northeast, Fengtian City was occupied, the cities in the northeast fell one after another, and Kuanchengzi also fell into the hands of the Oriental ghosts not long ago. Yang Xi's father didn't want to be a slave under the rule of the Japanese, so he took his family out of the city, planning to cross the Great Wall to seek a living in Guannai.
When it was time to rest, Hu Fei went to ask for directions, first asking Yang Xi's father the location of Wanghaishan. Father Yang shook his head blankly, and he didn't know where the sea and mountains were. Hu Fei asked several elderly people in a row, but none of them could tell the location of Wanghaishan, and even an old man with a gray beard said that there seemed to be a Wanghaishan in Shandong. Can the bandit leader Lao Beifeng be in Shandong? When you arrive in Shandong, it seems that if you don't call a beard, you should call a horse, right?
Well, since you can't find out about Wanghaishan from these people, let's wait until you get to a crowded county and town! Although Hu Fei was not satisfied with this result, he was helpless, people didn't know what he could do?
After a short break, Hu Fei and Yang Xi and several other young people of similar age came together. Young people always have something to say, and this journey is not lonely.
The one or two hundred people Hu Fei saw walking together at the beginning were indeed together by accident, and when they saw a fork in the road, some people turned down, and some people joined in on the fork in the road. After passing through a few intersections, the first team of one or two hundred people could not be connected at all. There were only a dozen or twenty people in the group of people Hu Fei belonged to, and the distance between them and the crowd in front and behind them was hundreds of meters away.
The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and a dozen horses suddenly appeared on the fork in the road. The knights on the horses were dressed in fur coats, fur hats, and swords and spears, and they were obviously not ordinary people.
Pedestrians on the road heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves and hurried to the side of the road, and the horse team swept past the crowd like a gust of wind. Hu Feizheng looked at the knight on the horse and was a little stunned, but he didn't expect the horse team to suddenly stop after rushing out of the horse for more than 100 meters. Immediately after someone shouted, the team turned around and turned back, just in front of Hu Fei and the others.
"Everyone, please stay!" When the first big man raised his hand, the knights behind him pulled out spears and steel knives from their horses, and put on a posture ready to rush and kill.
"Brothers, fight Japan, and don't risk your life to protect the old and young masters of our Northeast! The young marshal went to the Guannai, and no one paid us. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers are here today to raise salaries for our anti-Japanese army, so you must all be enthusiastic about donating, right? We're not unreasonable people, and you won't bring much money when you're out and about. In this way, no more, no less, as long as the three old and four young people leave us with the coils they are carrying, the brothers will turn their heads and leave, it will not be difficult for you! ”
When these words came out, the group of men, women and children on the road were all dumbfounded, feeling that these people are still anti-Japanese troops?
"Hurry up, hurry up, hand over the money quickly, I still have to go to the front line to fight devils, I don't have time to rub against you here!" Seeing that the crowd was talking and no one was going out to pay for it, the knights were impatient, and a few of them were anxious to wave their weapons and shout loudly. The leader had a sneer on his face, and he neither stopped nor spoke, but just swept around the crowd with his fierce eyes.
"This, sir, you say it's an anti-Japanese team, so what is the number of your army?" Yang Xi's father is the most educated of these people, a primary school teacher. At this moment, seeing that his side couldn't come up with an accurate idea for a while, and the other party was obviously in a hurry, so he had no choice but to come out and negotiate with these people.
"Ask our number? How? Do you want to listen to military secrets? A man with a scar on his face stared at Lao Yang, his face full of malice.
"Don't dare, don't dare." Lao Yang hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't dare to listen." We pay the money, but we should always know who the money is for, right? ”
What Lao Yang said is reasonable, how can there be a reason to contribute military salaries but not know which army Lu Dao has given to? After hearing this, the leader of the horse team thought for a while, and then waved his hand and reported the number with a nonchalant face, "We are the Northeast People's Self-Defense Army!" After saying that, he waved his head, and the people behind jumped off the horse, rushed into the crowd and began to grab the baggage!
"Hey, hey, there's a change of clothes!"
"What change of clothes? Let's check it first! ”
"Sir, sir, don't you dare! This is the cost of my family of four to enter the customs! ”
"Damn, Lao Tzu helped you fight devils, what else are you going to do? Stay in the Northeast honestly, and you are not allowed to enter the customs! ”
"Boss, this is the flower cloth I use to cut clothes for my daughter-in-law."
"Phew! What boss? Lao Tzu is not called the boss, but the master! There is also a flower cloth, and when the master goes to visit the kiln, it can be exchanged for money! ”
A group of so-called Northeast People's Self-Defense Forces rushed into the crowd to rob what they saw, in addition to banknotes, oceans, gold and silver jewelry, they also took what they saw and took from the people's luggage. These guys don't look like a regular army at all, they look more like beards!
Hu Fei was mixed in the crowd, and at first, he was small and short and crowded in the crowd without anyone paying attention. But there are so many of them in this group, and these people who are raising salaries have leaked Hu Fei out after searching for a few people, and it is impossible for him not to be noticed.
"Yo, what is this little brother carrying? Why do I think it looks like a gun? Little guy, will you make a gun? Take it and let the master teach you. The leader was stunned when he saw the long cloth bag on Hu Fei's back, and then he walked up to him with a big grin, and reached out to grab Hu Fei's gun!